Reading Ephesians 5:22-33, NIV
Map: loves wife like Christ loves the church-gave himself up for her, cleansing her.., present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle..but holy and blameless; loves wife like loving your own bodies-mutual respect; he who loves his wife loves himself (vs 28, NIV). ..man to leave his father and unite with his wife-one flesh..(vs 31, NIV).
Ephesians 5:22-33, GNB
[22]Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
[23]For a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the Saviour of the church, his body.
[24]And so wives must submit completely to their husbands just as the church submits itself to Christ.
[25]Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
[26]He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,
[27]in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty — pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.
[28]Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
[29](People never hate their own bodies. Instead, they feed them and take care of them, just as Christ does the church;
[30]for we are members of his body.)
[31]As the scripture says, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.”
[32]There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church.
[33]But it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband.